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50 Things to Do with a Book: (Now That Reading Is Dead)
50 Things to Do with a Book: (Now That Reading Is Dead) (Hardcover)
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Description
Reading may be dead, but books are alive and well
What good are books, you may be wondering, if we're not going to read them? What are we even doing in this bookstore? Not to worry! It turns out that there are literally thousands of things to do with these chunky stacks of bound tree pulp. Fun, exciting, adventurous, creative things. In fact, this familiar rectangular object suddenly offers enough dazzling new interactive possibilities to, yes, fill a book. This book. From re-creating world wonders to settling marital disputes, entertaining dinner guests to channeling your inner secret agent, here are fifty wonderfully zany things to do with all your favorite books.
About the Author
Bruce McCall's written and illustrated satire is a familiar part of the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and other major publications, and he has published two books of collected humor, Zany Afternoons and All Meat Looks like South America, as well as a memoir of growing up Canadian, Thin Ice. McCall has also just published his first children's book, Marveltown. He lives in New York City.
Praise for 50 Things to Do with a Book: (Now That Reading Is Dead)…
“Bruce McCall, whose satire in The New Yorker is always entertaining, has outdone himself.”
-Boston Globe
“...revelatory in its demonstration of just how many purposes a book might have.”
-Los Angeles Times, Jacket Copy Blog
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